Subject: Re: SETI@home clients being built
To: None <agrier@poofy.goof.com>
From: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
List: current-users
Date: 06/20/1999 08:07:49
In <19990619153736.G10957@metro.poofy.goof.com>
agrier@poofy.goof.com wrote:

> > Yes, it seems doing many FFTs.
> 
> Hmm...  I was always under the assumption that the FFT was by definition
> an optimized discrete Fourier transform, and thus no floating point was
> used.

Well, I'm not familiar with both SETI and FFT...

At least, a rc5-64 client on CATS is ~17 times as fast as
a sparc client on SS1+. It has SA-110 optimized code, though.
---
Izumi Tsutsui
tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp